Electronic Cinema - Digital Vision Creates the Link

Fri, Sep 10, 1999 14:37 CET

Electronic Cinema - Digital Vision Creates the Link
Amsterdam, September 10th 1999 - Electronic Cinema is projected to develop
rapidly over the coming years and will become a revolutionary breakthrough for
distributing and showing movies. Electronic Cinema enables dramatic changes to
the economy and appearance of cinematic images. Advantages include more
consistent film quality in the theatre, cost-effective distribution,
simultaneous release of movies world-wide, less risk for piracy as well as
more all-over flexible usage of cinemas.
Electronic Cinema utilises film tailored High Definition video as a medium for
displaying film material by using a film tailored compression to a file,
digital delivery over e.g. IP or DVD-ROM and digital projector to bring the
image to the screen. The film does not degrade, scratch or gather dirt and its
colours are precisely consistent from one print to the next.
Digital Vision - Key player in the field
Digital Vision aims at becoming a key player in the field of Electronic
Cinema, already pioneering being involved in different projects both in Europe
and in the US.
"Electronic Cinema will represent a technology revolution where the only
question is how fast the transition will be. In this virgin market Digital
Vision can supply essential building blocks to implement Electronic Cinema
from movie pre-mastering to a matched cinema playback server", said Peter
Weiss, CEO Digital Vision.
Digital Vision's BitPack-Cine is a complete Playback system for Electronic
Cinema and similar applications based on Digital Vision's premium quality
MPEG2 MP@HL products. BitPack-Cine uses 1920 pixels x 1080 lines progressive
24 frames/s as the film tailored mastering format. Handles multiple PCM, MPEG
and passthrough or decoding of Dolby Digital audio tracks or other audio
formats as well as support for multi-language subtitling. The BitPack-Cine
playback system provides up-conversion of an SDTV signal to the high-
resolution EC format suitable for insertion of commercials or trailers. A
Windows NT user interface enables a dynamic playback system with asset
management, language and subtitle selection to "build a print" as well as
playout automation. The system also provides future extension to closed loop
encryption for full security.
Digital Vision White Paper at IBC
During IBC (International Broadcast Convention) in Amsterdam Digital Vision
will also take part in a Paper Session featuring the paper "HDTV and
th
Electronic Cinema - making the Link" (on September 12 ). Keith Jenkins,
Technical Director at Digital Vision UK, and Product Line Manager for Digital
Vision's transmission products will speak about the latest developments in
HDTV and Electronic Cinema. (The name of the session is "HDTV - Are the latest
developments truly progressive?")
Digital Vision is a leading manufacturer of digital processing equipment for
the post-production, pre-mastering, telecommunications, and emerging
electronic cinema markets. Founded in 1988 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, the
company sells and supports its products throughout the World from offices in
Stockholm (covering Europe/ROW), Los Angeles (USA), London (UK), and via a
network of more than 25 distributors. Thus Digital Vision has a strong
presence in the world market.
Digital Vision received an Emmy Award in 1992 for its work on advanced motion
compensation technology as applied to standard converters. The company also
holds the IABM Peter Wayne Award for New Technology for BitPack TM, its MPEG2
pre-mastering workstation and the ITS Monitor Award in recognition for the
Advanced Scratch and Dirt concealer.
For more information, please contact:
Karin Cedronius, Digital Vision DV Sweden AB
Upplagsvägen 1, S-117 43 Stockholm, Sweden.
Phone: +46 8 18 24 65, Fax: +46 8 18 24 66
E-mail: karin.cedronius@digitalvision.se
Web site: www.digitalvision.se
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http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/09/10/19990910BIT00260/bit0002.pdf

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